Florida Senate - 2009 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 2104
Barcode 587888
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
03/17/2009 .
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The Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation
(Sobel) recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment
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3 Delete lines 103 - 274
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5 all people of the state, both present and future. Beginning
6 July 1, 2009, each newly developed or updated land management
7 plan must shall provide a desired outcome, describe both short
8 term and long-term management goals, and include measurable
9 objectives for achieving these to achieve those goals. Short
10 term goals must shall be achievable within a 2-year planning
11 period, and long-term goals must shall be achievable within a
12 10-year planning period. These short-term and long-term
13 management goals shall be the basis for all subsequent land
14 management activities.
15 (c) Beginning July 1, 2009, a newly developed or updated
16 the land management plan must, shall at a minimum, contain the
17 following elements:
18 1. A physical description of the land.
19 2. A quantitative data description of the land which
20 includes an inventory of forest and other natural resources;
21 exotic and invasive plants; hydrological features;
22 infrastructure, including recreational facilities; and other
23 significant land, cultural, or historical features. The
24 inventory must shall reflect the number of acres for each
25 resource and feature, as when appropriate. The inventory shall
26 be of such detail that objective measures and benchmarks can be
27 established for each tract of land and monitored during the
28 lifetime of the plan. All quantitative data collected must shall
29 be aggregated, standardized, collected, and presented in an
30 electronic format to allow for uniform management reporting and
31 analysis. The information collected by the Department of
32 Environmental Protection pursuant to s. 253.0325(2) shall be
33 available to the land manager and his or her assignee.
34 3. A detailed description of each short-term and long-term
35 land management goal, the associated measurable objectives, and
36 the related activities that are to be performed to meet the land
37 management objectives. Each land management objective must be
38 addressed by the land management plan, and where practicable,
39 may not no land management objective shall be performed to the
40 detriment of the other land management objectives.
41 4. A schedule of land management activities which contains
42 short-term and long-term land management goals and the related
43 measurable objective and activities. The schedule must shall
44 include for each activity a timeline for completing each
45 activity completion, quantitative measures, and detailed expense
46 and manpower budgets. The schedule must shall provide a
47 management tool that facilitates the development of performance
48 measures.
49 5. A summary budget for the scheduled land management
50 activities of the land management plan. For state lands
51 containing or anticipated to contain imperiled species habitat,
52 the summary budget must shall include any fees anticipated from
53 public or private entities for projects to offset adverse
54 impacts to imperiled species or such habitat, which fees shall
55 be used solely to restore, manage, enhance, repopulate, or
56 acquire imperiled species habitat. The summary budget must shall
57 be prepared in a such manner that it facilitates computing an
58 aggregate of land management costs for all state-managed lands
59 using the categories described in s. 259.037(3).
60 Section 2. Subsection (2) of section 253.111, Florida
61 Statutes, is amended to read:
62 253.111 Notice to board of county commissioners before
63 sale.—The Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust
64 Fund of the state may not sell any land to which they hold title
65 unless and until they afford an opportunity to the county in
66 which such land is situated to receive such land on the
67 following terms and conditions:
68 (2) The board of county commissioners of the county in
69 which such land is situated shall, within 40 days after receipt
70 of such notification from the board, determine by resolution
71 whether or not it proposes to acquire such land.
72 Section 3. Subsections (1), (2), and (5) of section
73 259.035, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
74 259.035 Acquisition and Restoration Council.—
75 (1) There is created the Acquisition and Restoration
76 Council.
77 (a) The council shall be composed of eleven voting members,
78 of which six members shall be appointed pursuant to paragraphs
79 (a), (b), and (c) four of whom shall be appointed by the
80 Governor. The appointed members shall be appointed Of these four
81 appointees, three shall be from scientific disciplines related
82 to land, water, or environmental sciences and the fourth shall
83 have at least 5 years of experience in managing lands for both
84 active and passive types of recreation. They shall serve 4-year
85 terms, except that, initially, to provide for staggered terms,
86 two of the appointees shall serve 2-year terms. All subsequent
87 appointments shall be for 4-year staggered terms. An No
88 appointee may not shall serve more than two terms 6 years. A
89 vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of an unexpired term
90 in the same manner as the original appointment. The Governor may
91 at any time fill a vacancy for the unexpired term of a member
92 appointed under this paragraph.
93 (a) Four members shall be appointed by the Governor. Of
94 these, three members shall be from scientific disciplines
95 related to land, water, or environmental sciences and the fourth
96 member must have at least 5 years of experience in managing
97 lands for both active and passive types of recreation.
98 (b) One member shall be appointed by the Commissioner of
99 Agriculture from a discipline related to agriculture including
100 silviculture.
101 (c) One member shall be appointed by the Fish and Wildlife
102 Conservation Commission from a discipline related to wildlife
103 management or wildlife ecology.
104 (d)(b) The five remaining members appointees shall be
105 composed of the Secretary of Environmental Protection, the
106 director of the Division of Forestry of the Department of
107 Agriculture and Consumer Services, the executive director of the
108 Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the director of the
109 Division of Historical Resources of the Department of State, and
110 the secretary of the Department of Community Affairs, or their
111 respective designees.
112 (c) One member shall be appointed by the Commissioner of
113 Agriculture with a discipline related to agriculture including
114 silviculture. One member shall be appointed by the Fish and
115 Wildlife Conservation Commission with a discipline related to
116 wildlife management or wildlife ecology.
117 (e)(d) The Governor shall appoint the chair of the council,
118 and a vice chair shall be elected from among the members.
119 (f)(e) The council shall hold periodic meetings at the
120 request of the chair.
121 (g)(f) The Department of Environmental Protection shall
122 provide primary staff support to the council and shall ensure
123 that council meetings are electronically recorded. Such
124 recording must shall be preserved pursuant to chapters 119 and
125 257.
126 (h)(g) The board of trustees may has authority to adopt
127 rules pursuant to administer ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to
128 implement the provisions of this section.
129 (2) The six appointed four members of the council appointed
130 pursuant to paragraph (a) and the two members of the council
131 appointed pursuant to paragraph (c) shall receive reimbursement
132 for expenses and per diem for travel, to attend council
133 meetings, as allowed state officers and employees while in the
134 performance of their duties, pursuant to s. 112.061.
135 (5) A majority vote An affirmative vote of five members of
136 the council is required in order to change a project boundary or
137 to place a proposed project on a list developed pursuant to
138 subsection (4). Any member of the council who by family or a
139 business relationship has a connection with all or a portion of
140 any proposed project shall declare the interest before voting on
141 its inclusion on a list.
142 Section 4. Paragraph (b) of subsection (3) and subsection
143 (6) of section 259.037, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
144 259.037 Land Management Uniform Accounting Council.—
145 (3)
146 (b) Beginning July 1, 2009, each reporting agency shall
147 also:
148 1. Include a report of the available public use
149 opportunities for each management unit of state land, the total
150 management cost for public access and public use, and the cost
151 associated with each use option.
152 2. List the acres of land requiring minimal management
153 effort, moderate management effort, and significant management
154 effort pursuant to s. 259.032(11)(c). For each category created
155 in paragraph (a), the reporting agency shall include the amount
156 of funds requested, the amount of funds received, and the amount
157 of funds expended for land management.
158 3. List acres managed and cost of management for each park,
159 preserve, forest, reserve, or management area.
160 4. List acres managed, cost of management, and lead manager
161 for each state lands management unit for which secondary
162 management activities were provided.
163 5. Include a report of the estimated calculable financial
164 benefits to the public for the ecosystem services provided by
165 conservation lands, based on the best readily available
166 information or science that provides a standard measurement
167 methodology to be consistently applied by the land managing
168 agencies. Such information may include, but need not be limited
169 to, the value of natural lands for protecting the quality and
170 quantity of drinking water through natural water filtration and
171 recharge, contributions to protecting and improving air quality,
172 benefits to agriculture through increased soil productivity and
173 preservation of biodiversity, and savings to property and lives
174 through flood control.
175 (6) Beginning July 1, 2010 Biennially, each reporting
176 agency shall also submit an operational report every five years
177 for each management area along with an approved to which a new
178 or updated management plan was approved by the board of trustees
179 pursuant to ss.